China's economic influence is expanding into Central Asia, sparking increased trade and infrastructure investment helped by soft loans from Beijing. For regional governments, this is a useful counterweight to Moscow, economically as well as politically. China values the area's energy resources, and is likely to try to follow CNPC's 2005 purchase of PetroKazakhstan with further oil and gas acquisitions.
The PRC wants to develop Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, a sensitive province...
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